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With the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and computer vision technologies, object detection from UAV perspectives has emerged as a prominent research area. However, challenges for detection brought by the extremely small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Liugang Lu , Dabin He , Congxiang Liu , Zhixiang Deng

This paper investigates and develops methods for detecting small objects in large-scale aerial images. Current approaches for detecting small objects in aerial images often involve image cropping and modifications to detector network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mahila Moghadami , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Melika Sabaghian

Aerial object detection in UAV imagery presents unique challenges due to the high prevalence of tiny objects, adverse environmental conditions, and strict computational constraints. Standard YOLO-based detectors fail to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yann V. Bellec

Drone-based target detection presents inherent challenges, such as the high density and overlap of targets in drone-based images, as well as the blurriness of targets under varying lighting conditions, which complicates identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yuchen Zheng , Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui

The real-time detection of small objects in complex scenes, such as the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photography captured by drones, has dual challenges of detecting small targets (<32 pixels) and maintaining real-time efficiency on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Defan Chen , Yaohua Hu , Luchan Zhang

Object detection as part of computer vision can be crucial for traffic management, emergency response, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities. Despite significant advances in object detection, detecting small objects in images captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Boshra Khalili , Andrew W. Smyth

The detection of small objects in aerial images is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision. Moving objects in aerial photography have problems such as different shapes and sizes, dense overlap, occlusion by the background, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Haodong Li , Haicheng Qu

Although advances in deep learning and aerial surveillance technology are improving wildlife conservation efforts, complex and erratic environmental conditions still pose a problem, requiring innovative solutions for cost-effective small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aditya Prashant Naidu , Hem Gosalia , Ishaan Gakhar , Shaurya Singh Rathore , Krish Didwania , Ujjwal Verma

Detecting small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a ground-to-air (G2A) perspective presents significant challenges, including extremely low pixel occupancy, cluttered aerial backgrounds, and strict real-time constraints. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengyu Chen , Haotian Sa , Yiwei Hu , Yuhan Cheng , Junbo Wang

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images poses significant challenges due to unstable image quality, small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and environmental occlusions. Small objects, in particular, occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xudong Wang , Yaxin Peng , Chaomin Shen

Detecting small objects in complex scenes, such as those captured by drones, is a daunting challenge due to the difficulty in capturing the complex features of small targets. While the YOLO family has achieved great success in large target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Defan Chen , Luchan Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

Object detection, a crucial aspect of computer vision, has seen significant advancements in accuracy and robustness. Despite these advancements, practical applications still face notable challenges, primarily the inaccurate detection or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chun-Lin Ji , Tao Yu , Peng Gao , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

We aim at providing the object detection community with an efficient and performant object detector, termed YOLO-MS. The core design is based on a series of investigations on how multi-branch features of the basic block and convolutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yuming Chen , Xinbin Yuan , Jiabao Wang , Ruiqi Wu , Xiang Li , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Small object detection has major applications in the fields of UAVs, surveillance, farming and many others. In this work we investigate the performance of state of the art Yolo based object detection models for the task of small object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Muhammed Can Keles , Batuhan Salmanoglu , Mehmet Serdar Guzel , Baran Gursoy , Gazi Erkan Bostanci

Now a days, UAVs such as drones are greatly used for various purposes like that of capturing and target detection from ariel imagery etc. Easy access of these small ariel vehicles to public can cause serious security threats. For instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Aleena Ajaz , Ayesha Salar , Tauseef Jamal , Asif Ullah Khan

As drone-based object detection technology continues to evolve, the demand is shifting from merely detecting objects to enabling users to accurately identify specific targets. For example, users can input particular targets as prompts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hyun-Ki Jung

Achieving a balance between computational efficiency and detection accuracy in the realm of rotated bounding box object detection within aerial imagery is a significant challenge. While prior research has aimed at creating lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zhifei Shi , Zongyao Yin , Sheng Chang , Xiao Yi , Xianchuan Yu

Aerial object detection presents challenges from small object sizes, high density clustering, and image quality degradation from distance and motion blur. These factors create an information bottleneck where limited pixel representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ragib Amin Nihal , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Katsutoshi Itoyama , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Drone detection in visually complex environments remains challenging due to background clutter, small object scale, and camouflage effects. While generic object detectors like YOLO exhibit strong performance in low-texture scenes, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Tobias Koch
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